Cigar



E. L. COUCH AND G. H. CONNERS.

CIGAR.

APPLICATION men JUNE 9,1920.

1 349, 1 47 Patented Aug. 10, 1920.

(f MlIy ENTORS ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELBnnr L. COUCH, OF FARMINGTON, AND enonen H. commas, or HARTFORD,

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CIGAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 10, 1920.

Application filed June 9, 1920. Serial No. 387,551.

Hartford, respectively, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful improve ments in Cigars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cigars. W e provide a device of ignitible character associated with the cigar by which it may be lighted, this ignitible device forming in effeet a practically permanent part of the cigar although it'is true that it may be in part or in toto removed when the cigar is to be lighted. The label and lighter element is desirably of such a character that upon the lighting of the cigar this element is destroyed. This element as will be inferred carries for instance, identifications of the cigar after the fashion of the customary bands, which is destroyed or at least ren dered useless the instant the cigar is lighted, this being an important features when it is realized that the present and well-known cigar bands intended for high-grade cigars are frequently by unscrupulous dealers, put on inferior ones. Ve use the term cigars somewhat as a matter of convenience. It is conceivable of course that the invention may be associated with things other than cigars of which a cigarette is an example. In like fashion the label itself presents an article of manufacture, which is capable of production independently of the cigar.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of the present specification, we have shown two of the many forms of embodiment of the invention which to enable those skilled in the art to practice the same will be set forth fully in the following descrip tion. Obviously we are not restricted to this disclosure. lVe may depart therefrom in several respects within the scope of the invention defined by the claims following said description.

Referring to said drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a cigar furnished with combination label and lighter involving the invention.

Fig. 2 is a view at right angles of the tuck end of the cigar.

Fig. 3 is an elevation as seen from the right in Fig. 1.

g. i is a flat view of the label. F g. 5 is an elevation of a modification. Like characters refer to like parts throughout the several views.

The cigar shown is denoted by 2. Associated with it is a combined label and lighter which will be hereina ter described, and which is desirably assoi led with the tuck end of the cigar as distinguished from the head end. This tuck end (on the right in Figs. 1 and 2) has a longitudinal recess or aperture as 3 constituting a convenient seat or a holder, for the combined label and lighter. The combined label and lighter shown in F '1, 2 and 3 as operatively associated with the cigar 2 and in practically iiank condition in Fig. 4, comprises a body as 4 usually of some inflammable stock such for instance as paper, although some other Substance could be employed as well. This body desirably coated by some inflammable substance such as paraffin, which we prefer cover its entire surface. The body l has a transverse fold line 5 practically at its center so that the body can be folded on said line to present two branches 6 of duplicate character which can be brought closely together to produce a two-part shank which will be inserted in the recess or aperture 3 as clearly shown in Fig. 1, this two-part shank bottoming or practically bottoming in the recess or aperture 3. The body 4: has at its outer end the widened lugs or ears 7 which as shown are duplicates of each other and these lugs or cars are bent at practically right angles to the branches 6 so as to extend outwardly therefrom and thus bring them into transverse line with each other. The inner surfaces of these ears or lugs when the label and lighter is in assembled relation with the cigar, are contiguous to the flat outer tuck end of the cigar. The cars or lugs 7 on their outer surfaces bear identification data of some kind, usually corresponding with that found on the ordinary band. The upper lug or ear 7 in Fig. 4; may fpr instance bear the name of the cigar and the lower one the place at which the cigar is manufactured or there might be any other background of the lugs or cars being sanded ;or having some other abrasive material. The inflammable substance 8 on one lug will be caused to ignite when brought against and rubbed back and forth against the substance on the other lug or car. This result causes the combined label and lighter to flame and this in turn will be communicated to the cigar to light it so that the user having removed the head of the cigar can then light it.: 'There is an advantage in having the body of the label and lighter of wedge formation in that this is introduced, for instance into a dry cheap cigar, after havi ing been intended for one of a better quality, the sides of the wedge body will break the cheaper cigar and thus render it unfit for use.

In Fig; 5 is a tube 10. which is to be inserted in a seat in the tuck end of the cigar,

I are of paper or some other inflammable material and may as before, be coated with parafiin or something of an equivalent nature, to promote combustion. The head or flange which will be adjacent the tuck end of the cigar, may have printed on its outer surface data such as we have described. The tube 10 is adapted to receive a pin 12 of metal, wood or other suitable material, and which is provided with a scratching surface to ignite the paper tube 10 as the pin 12 is pulled from it.

In both forms of our invention and in others that we have in mind,the combination label and lighter presents all the attributes of a protective element; that is to say it protects the brand of the user. The

article also is a novelty and in addition to this advertises the brand and the maker of the cigar.

hat we claim is: V V

1. A cigar provided with a combination lighting and advertising member, the advertising means being adapted to light said member. 2. A. cigar providedwith a combination lighting and advertising member at the tuck end thereof, the advertising means being adapted to light said member. 7

3. A cigar provided with a combination lighting and advertising member at the tuck end thereof, the advertising member being movable to cause the advertising matter to ignite the member and therefore the cigar.

4:. A cigar provided with a combination lighting and advertising member having a wedge fit in the tuck end thereof.

5. A cigar provided with a member fitted in the tuck end thereof and having advertising means to ignite itself and thus the 6. An igniting device for a cigar comprising a wedge like body having two branches to fit fiatwise against each other and having ears carrying advertising'matter which functions also to ignite the ears.

7. An igniting device for a cigar comprising a wedge like body having two branches to fit fiatwise against each other, and having ears carrying advertising matter which functions also to ignite the ears, said device beinginsertible in the tuck end of a cigar with the ears folded back against the cigar end. 7

In testimony whereof we afliX our signatures.

,ELBERT L. COUCH. GEORGE H. CONNERS.

In presence of HEATH SUTHERLAND, ELIZABETH A. BANNING. 

